Public service broadcaster in trouble

"Long dominant public broadcaster falls on hard times", said the headline. Surely, I thought, things are not that bad for the BBC, despite the Ross-Brand affair, the BBC Trust's refusal to allow regional website expansion and threats by various oddballs not to pay their TV licences.

In fact, the FollowTheMedia article was referring to Austria's ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk), one of Europe's richest public broadcasters. It's slashing costs, laying off staff, pulling out of the Eurovision song contest and considering selling off non-core assets.